All-optical add-drop node for optical packet-switched networks
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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
P K A Wai1, Lixin Xu, L F K Lui
1Photonics Research Centre and Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. enwai@polyu.edu.hk
Optics Letters
|July 13, 2005
Abstract:
We have demonstrated all-optical packet add-drop for all-optical packet-switched networks. Intelligent all-optical add-drop of packets is performed, based on all-optical processing of packet headers. The header and payload rates are 5 and 10 Gbits/s, respectively.
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